What age did your kids start walking?

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What age did your kids start walking?
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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 2:44am
I am curious. My dd is now 1 year old and hand walking, wall walking and furniture walking. At her 1st party, a little boy who is 2 weeks younger than her is running a marathon almost!!!! He is moving around like a pro, with no assistance. People started saying stupid things to me to get me going, like "why isn't she walking yet, she's older... what are you doing to her..." bla bla bla. that kind of crap. I kept pretty cool, and just brushed it off. But now I want to know what age did your kids walk unassited at?

TIA

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Registered: 12-13-2003
Mon, 06-07-2004 - 8:19am
Don't pay any attention to boneheads like that. Every baby is different. My son walked at 9 1/2 months,but my little niece was a year old before she started walking. In fact my mom has told me that I didn't start walking until I was 14 mmonths old....and then she couldn't stop me. I think I read somewhere that the average age for kids to start walking is between 10 and 14 months. So Your little girl is just great,just blow those people off. Some people will always have something negative to say about everything.

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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 8:41am
Well, my DD was right at 10 months when she walked unassisted and DS was 10 1/2 months. But every baby is different. Some walk alot earlier and some not until well over a year and a half. Like my nephew, he was about 18 months when he started walking, he was more content crawling around on the ground. There was nothing wrong with him, he just was in no hurry what-so-ever..lol

Don't worry about anything, she will walk when she thinks/knows she is ready and comfortable. And don't pay attention to everyone else's comments...everybody ALWAYS has their opinion. ;)

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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 9:21am
YUP every baby is diffrent, my 1st walked close to 12 months but my other two gorls were 10 months old,, beleive me I really wanted them to walk later it is a lot of work,, when they walk early,, he will walk no need to worry,, good luck!!
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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 10:35am
I would definitely agree with the other posters about not listening to the knuckleheads that say your child should be walking and "what's wrong with her?". Quite often it's a simple matter of competition when people make those statements. "My child did THIS, what did you child do?" like the child in question has a deficit because they weren't at the level of the other child. If this is your second child, and the older one performed differently at the same age, I can understand your questioning. My two older children both walked "early." My 11 yo took her first steps at 7 1/2 months and was flying around on her own by 9 mo. My 7 yo was walking alone by 10 months. But my 2 yo was totally different! She didn't walk until she was approaching 14 months. I was a bit baffled, but chalked it up to having older sibs who toted her around all the time. I am curious to see how my 6 mo old will be. He's the kind of child who loves to be held constantly and isn't happy unless he's got attention devoted solely on himself. We'll see? I wouldn't bother listening to the statements. Your baby will walk when she is ready, just like she'll talk when she's ready. In both cases, you'll reach a point where you MISS when they didn't do either! "Sit down and be quiet!" Good luck!

Carson - SAHM to six

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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 3:33pm
My son starting crawling at 6-7 motnhs old and then walking not too far after that.
Just remmeber, all children are diffirent, just check with your ped and see if this is ok and go from there :)

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Tue, 06-08-2004 - 9:55am
there's nothing better than when people start comparing the rugrats...NOT!! it's ridiculous and annoying, because they're all so different and what comes easy for one comes harder for another and vice versa. sure, that kid was walking alone and yours wasn't, but yours may be able to eat with a spoon or say 10 words while the other one can't. it's such an exercise in futility, lol. both my kids walked really early (8 mo for ds and 9 for dd), but that was because they crawled really late and really awkwardly. they HAD to walk really early if they were going to get anywhere! my friend's perfectly normal kids walked at 13 and 14 months.

all that being said, a really good trick to teach them to go from 'cruising' to independent walking is for you to hold one end of a thick cord/rope and have them hold the other end and walk them around. when they get comfortable with that, start switching to progressively smaller cords until they gain the confidence to do it on their own. both of my kids could walk fine alone, they just lacked the confidence that they wouldn't faceplant, and this worked very well to teach them to do it on their own.

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Tue, 06-08-2004 - 10:43am
My first one started walking at 9 1/2 mo, my second one was walking at 14 mo., my third one walked on her first birthday and the fourth one walked at 13 mo. There were all different. I wouldn't worry unless the doctors do at her 15 month check up. I hate people who cant keep their opionions to themselves when it comes to other peoples kids.

Annemarie

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Tue, 06-08-2004 - 5:27pm
Hi, I'm a lurker from ttcam and I wanted to tell you. My DS started walking at 13 1/2 months, he was walking before that but just didn't let go. I love him so much and I'd still love him even if he walked at 6 or 16 months. The main thing is to enjoy your little one and never let anyone compare her. She is unique, no other baby is like her!

~April
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Tue, 06-08-2004 - 8:55pm
Don't sweat it. Kids all develop at different paces. My brother started walking at 10 months, I started walking at 13 months, my nieces both started walking at 11 months, my husband at 13 months, my sister in law at 11 months, I have a cousin who started at 8 months and two other cousins who didn't walk at all until they were 16 months. Nothing is wrong or exceptionally right (compared amongst each other) with any of us.

My son Alex is walking on furniture and walls and everything and can now take about 2 to 4 unassisted steps, though shaky. He will be 11 months in 4 days.

Don't let other parents get you down. Some jerks out there feel really crappy about themselves and since they're lazy dorks, they bring everyone down to feel better about themselves instead of trying to improve themselves.

Your baby sounds right on track. My pediatrician says that as long as they're "trying to walk" at around a year (and not still lying on their backs or still trying to scoot or wiggle or something) then they're right on time.

An example I like to use when I talk about child development is me and my brother. If you'll excuse what may sound like bragging, I have an iq of 158 (even though I haven't really done a whole lot with it! hehehe) I began talking at 14 months. My brother, on the other hand, hardly said a word until he was 4 years old and he has an iq of 165. He's smarter than me. That dork! My cousin that didn't walk until she was 16 months old was valedictorian of her school AND a cheerleader (if that shows you that it means nothing for physical development).

Hope that helped

-Heather
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Wed, 06-09-2004 - 10:40am
My ds didn't walk unassisted until he was almost 16 months. He started pulling up and walking along the furniture at 7 months, but would not walk holding on to our hands. He would sit down if you tried to get him to do it. He only started walking holding our hands around the 14 month mark.

Tanya

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